GEORGE HORACE LORIMER QUOTES III

American journalist & author (1867-1937)

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham


It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: conversation


The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham


You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: education


When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham


The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham


When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

Tags: wealth


When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham


There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: excuses


A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: business